William B Perrin was born in Berlin, Vermont January 19, 1839. He acquired his education in the Barre academy at Barre Vermont and at Dartmouth College Hanover, New Hampshire. He attended the law school at Albany, New York and was admitted there in 1867. He then removed to Burlington, Iowa where he was admitted January 1868, and later to Nashua, Iowa, where he formed a partnership with AG Lawrence, which continued from 1873 to 1882. Since that time he has been alone in the practice of his profession at Nashua. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic Loyal Legion and Knights of Pythias. Mr. Perrin is a republican, and was a member of the house of representatives Seventeenth and Eighteenth general assemblies, and of the senate in the Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth, Twenty-seventh, and Twenty- eighth general assemblies.